Never mind Cody. The subject is about restaurants and cleanliness and not about any other subject matter in other threads. I’ve been to “cowboy” restaurants that have peanut shells or sawdust all over the floor and also charge HUGE prices for steaks and drinks and they always have packed houses. The bottom line is that you’re not going to find ANY restaurant other than one that has fine dining that will always have every area of the floors spotless no matter where it is. Again, either go to the restaurant early when the people working there can cater to your every wish or don’t bother to go at all if you expect everything to be as spotless and orderly as you apparently want things during the rush. If the place is totally trashed and is downright nasty, no one should want to go there to begin with. To be perfectly blunt Cody, seniors like yourself give us all a bad name at restaurants. We’ve been in the workforce and should know how hard it can be to keep people happy and should have a little understanding instead of complaining about every single little thing and pushing people around just for show. Those people are working in a service position but they aren’t servants and don’t deserve to be shoved around because of something absolutely absurd by someone who has no clue. So far as being on the news, I was on the news in Flagstaff, Az for leading a man to the exit at a restaurant and the business nearly doubled over the next few weeks. Folks just do not like people who give the wait staff a hard time and that goes double for me. The guy worked for a local TV station and spent no less than a couple hundred bucks every time he walked in but he made life miserable for my staff and the other guests complained about him so I threw him out one night and barred him from ever coming back. Again, you’re going to do whatever it is you do. You like to complain it seems and no day is complete unless you find something you do not like. Try being positive and happy for a change. Complaining all the time only leads to stress and stress causes all kinds of physical and mental maladies.
I went to the local IHOP one night and there was a family having dinner. The 2 youngest ones were on the floor under the table flinging Mac & Cheese around. Some people treat restaurants the way others treat rental property.
I am just going to let you know, and everyone else. You are officially, on Ignore from me. I do this to keep myself from being banned before I off on you- worse than any Karen ever would.
Very true John and my sympathies lay with the guests who have to sit next to a family with uncontrolled children. If I remember correctly, our generation was the seen and not heard era whereby unruly kids were taken outside by dad and schooled as to the finer points of how a child should act in public places. Now, no one should get me wrong. I too do not necessarily like the idea of a bunch of rice or even macaroni under the table where I’m sitting but at the same time, I understand it as well as I understand when my order doesn’t come out quickly during a slam. For the money, I still expect good and fairly attentive service and good food but I’ll be derned if I’m going to fixate on something that will eventually get cleaned up when things slow to a low roar. Generally speaking, things at a restaurant have to be in pretty bad shape for me to complain. I guess the one complaint I always have (but never voice it) is about that uncouth idiot that always leaves the butt guard or toilet paper on the donniker seat for someone else to clean up before they can use it. Nasty people !! One of these days before I die I’m gonna catch that guy and make him clean up after himself.
I've eaten in restaurants that had dirt floors (actually, only one), and others where the norm was to throw peanut shells on the floor and, since peanuts were free, there was a lot of them. I assume that they probably swept them up before closing, but I'm not sure.
I recall the last time I got on the bench on my knees, turned around and peered at the diners in the booth adjoining ours. So does my bottom.
I've been in a steakhouse with the same peanut shell policy. I was told that the peanut oil was good for the hardwood floors. I don't know that I've been in a formal eatery with dirt floors (I gotta think about it), although I've done my share of polkas and square dances in such places.
Y'all leave Cody alone! He was just trying to start a thread like Ken has told us to do to keep the forum going. Every time he starts a thread some of you jump on him like a duck on a June bug.
Just a note: I really do not write opposition or agreement to anyone specific for any other reason than to reply to what they write. If anyone else had presented the same case in the same manner, I would have written my opposition to the statements as well. I happen to like Cody but I simply do not agree with much of what he complained about.
Now, my question is, Bobby, what about what others complain about? Just curious. Anyway, there use to be a very nice steakhouse called Stuart Anderson's Black Angus Restaurant. Years ago, in Garden Grove, CA, I took a few dates there for dinner. The restaurant was like "amazingly clean", including the restrooms. It was a nice, quiet and even a romantic vibe to it. Customers could have their own smaller, partially enclosed booth with a nice, low lite light on the table. It was an absolutely wonderful place for a date! Stuart Anderson had a Black Angus Ranch was in northern California, but he sold his restaurant chain and it was renamed Black Angus Restaurant. One of his sold restaurants was in Orlando, FL and when wife and I were in Orlando once, we stopped in for dinner. The new restaurant was somewhat very different. Not nearly as nice, quiet and romantic as the original was. Longhorn Steakhouse is good, but today, it seems like it's just 1-step up from the old Sizzler's Steakhouse Restuarant which wasn't romantic at all. Anyway, when restaurant employees/management take pride in how their restaurant looks, people like us won't complain. Yesterday on TripAdvisor, I put a review and gave that Longhorn Steakhouse a 4-Star our of 5 and stated why I didn't give it a 5.
Ok, Bobby, you "like" me............because I'm a Vietnam Veteran, like yourself? But, I do have to agree with you, if I read a thread about someone's complaint about something, like the Covid 19 vaccines, I'll say something and have.
No Cody, there’s a lot of vets I do not like. If I like someone it’s because I like the person. I may not agree with someone nor care for some of the things they do or say but the actual quality of a person goes a long way with me.
No, not trying to "push buttons", just curious. I always get curious at how someone handles someone else's complaints.